How to Learn WordPress: 11 Free Courses To Master WordPress

WordPress now powers 27.5% of the Internet. It’s growing tremendously and its helpful community is one of its biggest assets going forward. And the culture of giving back to this community makes it more awesome for any users wanting to learn and use WordPress. We tried to compile a list of tutorials that will guide new users toward WordPress awesomeness and learn WordPress for free.

Free WordPress basics tutorial by popular WordPress blog WPBeginner. These videos will teach you how to use WordPress. These videos were made for their enterprise client to reduce support tickets, but later they were made available for everyone.

The effort Katrina put in to create tutorials for WordPress users is quite amazing. You’ll find lots of her great tutorials on how to create a WordPress website from scratch all over the Internet. WordPress Website Step By Step Training seems quite extraordinary because the way she describes the whole process seems quite easy.

A free tuts+ course by developer Adi Purdila. The 4-part tutorial consisting of 21 videos will teach you how to use WordPress. You will learn all the WordPress basics from installation to managing a WordPress website.

LevelUpTuts has free tutorials for anything you can think of related to web development. Developer Scott Tolinski releases a new tutorial almost every week. His WordPress Basics tutorial covers everything anyone wants to know about using WordPress, so it’s a great tutorial for WordPress beginners. LevelUpTuts has created a followup tutorial on Customizing WordPress for intermediate users.

A step-by-step video tutorial on using and managing a WordPress-installed website. It’s a good course for new users who want a clear explanation of every feature. This Udemy course, taught by Seth Leonard, is currently free and you will get a Certificate of Completion.

A Udemy course by developer Jerad Hill, this WordPress course is appropriate for people who have WordPress installed, but haven’t figured out yet how to get the most out of it. This tutorial is quite big in terms of length, but it’s worth watching. It has a section on WooCommerce, which is enough to help you set up an online store or eCommerce store all by yourself.

Detailed video guides created by hosting provider SiteGround for WordPress users. Its precise tutorial is helpful for anyone who has just heard the name of WordPress but this tutorial is not a series or course like others mentioned in this article.

WordPress video tutorials for beginners who are new to WordPress content management system. This free detailed step by step video tutorials are created by OSTraining with the help of GoDaddy. Open source software education organization OSTraining teamed up with WordPress Developer Topher DeRosia to film this course. It covers the whole process from installing WordPress, creating post/page, embedding content from other sites, installing themes, plugins, backup WordPress and everything you need to know to run a website using WordPress.

Beside this 11 there are lots of video tutorials can be found on YouTube. But we’ve made a list of courses like tutorials for new WordPress users. If you want to stay updated about recent WordPress trends, check out our post about WordPress podcasts that will turn you into a WordPress ninja. Do you know any other useful free video tutorials that we missed. Let us know in the comments.

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Another super helpful article – thanks (again) for taking the time to put this together, and to connect to such helpful resources… now to choose one, or two, or three, that will be the best match for my clients and I 🙂

This is a great assortment of different resources. I’ve been collecting sites and videos for our users. We do some videos ourselves, but it’s nice to have options, especially when different users and companies are better at certain skills.